Ieronim Uborevich

Ieronim Petrovich Uborevich (14 January 1896-12 June 1937) was a General of the Army of the Soviet Union during the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War.

Biography
Ieronim Petrovich Uborevich was born on 14 January 1896 in Uzpailai, Lithuania, in the Russian Empire to a Lithuanian family. He graduated from the Konstantinovskoye Artillery School in 1915 and joined the Imperial Russian Army in 1916 during World War I at the age of 20. In March 1917, he joined the Bolshevik Party and in January 1918 was captured in Belarus while leading a detachment of Red Army troops against the German Empire. Alongside Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Uborevich fought in the Polish-Soviet War and crushed the Tambov Rebellion in 1921. He was responsible for the capture of the city of Vladibostok that brought the Russian Civil War to an end, defeating the last remnants of the White Army and making the Soviet Union a single nation. In 1922 he became the Minister of War of the Far Eastern Republic (a short-lived buffer state in between the USSR and the Japanese Empire) and in 1925 took over the North Caucasus Military District. In May 1937 he was tried for treason and executed on 12 June during the Great Purge.